Hydrocarbon-furnace



(Nolodeh) A. H. SHIPMAN.

HYDROGARBON FURNACE. D I No. 353,169. Patented Nov. 23,1886.

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.State of New lated by a float,

UNITED [STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT H. SHIPMAN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO THE SHIPMAN ENGINE COMPANY, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HYDROQARBON-FURNAC E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353.i'fi9,date d November 23,1886.

Application fll'ed August 2, 1884.

To allwhonv it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. SHIPMAN, of. Rochester, in the county of Monroe, in the' York, have invented certain Improvements in ydroca'rbon Furnaces, of, which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to certain improve.-v

mentsin hydrocarbon-farnaces, having for its object the maintenance of'the flame in theapparatus described ininy Patent N 0. 304,365, dated September 2, 1884,by lighting-the same .when extinguished by accident or by the op eration of the devices covered bythe said patenhandconsisting in the provision of a wicktubecqnnectedto an oil-reservoir in such relation to the oil-spraying devices and combustion-tube that thejct of mixed steam and oil will he ignited. by the independent flame of the wick-tube in case it becomes extinguished.

My invention also consistsincertain devices by which the independent flame of the wicktube is. protected from currents of air in the combustion-tube caused by the burning of the jet of sprayed oil therein.

My invention'is described and illustrated in the following specification and accompanying drawings, and the novel vfeatures thereof up ward through the provided with a valve,

.Sae p from the pipe irby'the claimed in the claims annexed to the said specification.' 2 I 1 My improvements in hydrocarbon-furnaces are illustrated in the accompany-ingdrawings, in. which. Figure 1 is a planview. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a jeentral longitudinal seetionon the line-was, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is aseetion through the atomizing-jet on an enlarged scale. Fi 5 is a transverse section through the conbustion-tnheon the line 3 3 Fig. 2.

In thcaceompanying drawings, A is an oilreservoir in which the quantity of oil is regu- B, controlling avalve, C.-

D isthe steam oil-atomizing jet, E the combust-ion tube, and F a wick-tube connected with the oilreservoir and serving to maintain a flame at its upper end for the purpose of igniting' the current of sprayed oil and steam emerging from the atomizer when accidentally extinguished.

The oil-reservoir A may be of any preferred size or construction. I generally arrange it to sfin No. 139,560. (No modelJ' receive a supply of kerosene or other suitable hydroearbonoil from alargesupply-reservoir, T,'(s'hown in the drawings by dotted lines,) through a pipe.'g, the-snpply-reservoir being arranged on a higher level, so that the liquid will flow in the pipe into thereservoir A, the quantity therein being controlled by the float B, which rises, as indicated atB, Fig. 3, and closes the valve 'The float is connected with the valve by a lever, h. From the reservoir the oil of steam from the boiler through the passage k in the 'ato nizing-jet D. Steam is supplied to the atomizer through the tube Z, which is m, having handles The construction of the atomizer which I prefer to usewill be readilyiunderstood from an examination of the sectional view, Fig. 4.

The end'of the atomizer is provided with a screw-cap, 0, having a central orifice through which't'he mixed jet of steam and sprayed oil 0 on the inner end of the pipe is drawn piped by the discharge emerges. The oil is drawn through the pasaction of the steam. The quantity of oil burned may be regulated by screwing the cap 0 atomizer. however, be employed.

.From the atomizer the burning jet of mingled steam and oil'spray passes through the combustion-tube E the boileror other to apply heat.-

object to which it is desired The reservoir A and the combustion-tubesho'uld be supported in the proper' heatedby suitable devices.

As shown in-the drawings, the combustiontube is provided beyond its curved deflector, R, having -relations with each other and the object to be a central cone, S,

on and off the; Any other .form of atomizer may,

8Q. and is by it directed under open end with a projecting inward therefrom, the object of 9c which is, to turn the flame upward and make it wider, so that it may be applied more effect- 'ively to the, object tobe heated. The comprovided on one side-with an bustion-tube is opening,-'t, through which the flame u at the endof the'wick-tube ignites the combustible jet from the atomizer in case it becomes extinguished from anygcause; As will be observed in Fig. 5, the end oil the wick-tube is placed slightly below the opening it, so as 'to' prevent IOO the flarneu from being extinguished by a cur- I 3 The. combination, with the steam oiI- rent of airproduced by the combustion in the spraying device D of the combustion tub'e E, 1 tube; y v provided with an opening, t, and having a I cinimwick-tube, F, arranged odtside of the combus- 1. The combination, with the reservoir A, tion-tnbe to maintain a flame which operates of the atomizer 1), combustion-tube E, and to light the jet from the atomizer, substanv vick-tube F, substantially as and for the purtiaily as described. poses set forth.

i 2. The combination, with the oil-reservoir ALBERT H. SHIPMAN. IO A, provided with the atomizer D,,fl0at-B, and

.valve 0, of the comhustion-tube E, wick-tube Witnesses:

F, and supp1 y-reservo1rTand connecting-pipe GEO. B. SELDEN, 'g,substantia1ly as described. H. G. PHILLIPS. 

